Lots of people raise money for good causes. Not many do it while zooming around a race track at over 150 mph.

For the second year, local businessman and hobby racer Ed Pompa is selling sponsorships on the car he will drive in the Pocono 200 on June 5 at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania. Proceeds from sponsorships will go to Double H Ranch in Lake Luzerne. The race, part of the ARCA series, will be televised on the Speed TV network. For a minimum donation of $100, businesses and other sponsors can get their names and logos on the car Pompa will drive. Higher sponsorship levels include perks such as race tickets and pit/paddock passes.

It costs $1,800 for the ranch to host a child for a week. Double H provides specialized programs and year-round support for children and their families dealing with life-threatening illnesses.

For information about becoming a sponsor, visit www.doublehranch.org or call the ranch at 696-5921 or contact Pompa at bedrock5@nycap.rr.com or at 857-3928. Sponsors must sign up by May 15.

Pompa, of Ballston Spa, and members of his family have been supporters of Double H for some years.

''It's a good cause, they help out lots of kids,'' he said.

Last year's sponsorship drive raised about $16,000 for the ranch, he said.

''I'm looking to bump it up a little this year,'' he said.

Max Yurenda, CEO of Double H, said the race car sponsorship idea is a creative extension of the Pompa family's long-standing support for Double H. Yurenda said Ed Pompa's mother, Agnes, has been a Double H board member for over a decade, and family members have sponsored campers, helped with other fundraising efforts and volunteered at the ranch.

This will be the 47-year-old Pompa's fourth time racing at Pocono. He said he got interested in auto racing as a kid, making trips to the speedway in Malta. In 1999, Pompa, co-owner of Pompa Bros. stone quarry, made the first of several trips to Fast Track High Performance Driving School in Harrisburg, N.C., which bills itself as the ''official driving school of ARCA.'' Eventually the school's owner, Andy Hillenburg, urged Pompa to try driving in a real race.

Pompa said Hillenburg suggested Pocono because it is a relatively wide track.

''It's big, you can stay out of trouble,'' Pompa said, adding that it is also the ARCA track closest to the Capital Region.

He made his debut there in 2006, finishing 25th in a car owned by Hillenburg through an arrangement called a ''lease ride.'' He raced at Pocono again in 2008 and 2009.

Teams in the ARCA series race stock cars, many of which were previously used in NASCAR and can reach top speeds of around 180 mph. The drivers run the gamut from hobby racers like Pompa to young competitors who hope to make it to a NASCAR team.